From Victorian Britain to the tech-savvy 20th century, the gentle enchantment and intimacy of the Flower Fairies ensure their enduring fascination and connection with the natural world.

An exclusive new Folio edition, Letters from Fairyland features exquisite miniature envelopes filled with heartfelt letters from Fairyland, and is lavishly illustrated with Charles van Sandwyk’s enchanting illustrations. You pull a tab to change the picture from its springtime flower fairy to its autumn one, eg Traveller's Joy to Old-Man's-Beard. The interior still includes all of the well-loved illustrations and poems from Barker's eight original books, as well as a selection of fairy rhymes. A very presentable, clean, hardly read copy with no inscriptions and bright pages throughout the book. Folio’s magnificent limited edition of The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, features fabulous artwork by Neil Packer, a foreword by Dame Judi Dench and an introduction by Gregory Doran.Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction. This collector’s favorite has been redesigned and now features a lavish, eye-catching jacket with silver foil. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, stapled spine, glossy pictorial covers, name and date on front cover, marks at top of first 3 pages plus small annotations on one pattern.

FIRST EDITION circa 1945 (dated from British Library accession date), 4to, 285 x 215 mm, 11¼ x 8½ inches, white cloth backed boards, colour illustrated upper board with red title, grey lower board, (16) pages. First edition in this new format created using electronic scanning methods from new transparencies of Cicely Mary Barker's illustrations.Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker's first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies have been ethereal companions to generations of readers around the world. Each poem is individually presented on the facing page to its relevant painting, just as in the first editions of Barker’s little volumes, while our font has been carefully selected for its close resemblance to the original. To mark Folio’s 75th anniversary, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is published as a magical new edition, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Marie-Alice Harel and bursting with exquisite design details. Mary Shelley's darkly disturbing tale is illustrated by Angela Barrett and newly introduced by Richard Holmes.